| Number-one song in the charts today |
 |
In the USA:
"Don't Go Breaking My Heart" by Elton John and Kiki Dee
In the UK:
"Don't Go Breaking My Heart" by Elton John & Kiki Dee
|
TIME Magazine cover this week |
 |
TIME Magazine: Disease Detectives
(TIME Cover: August the 16th, 1976)
|
Famous people born on the 20th of August: |
1601 - Pierre de Fermat, French mathematician (d. 1665)
1625 - Thomas Corneille, French dramatist (d. 1709)
1833 - Benjamin Harrison, 23rd President of the United States (d. 1901)
1901 - Salvatore Quasimodo, Italian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1968)
1910 - Eero Saarinen, Finnish architect (d. 1961)
1944 - Rajiv Gandhi, Prime Minister of India (d. 1991)
1948 - Robert Plant, English singer (Led Zeppelin)
|
The Nobel Prize in Literature 1976 |
|
Saul Bellow
1915-2005
for the human understanding and subtle analysis of contemporary culture that are combined in his work
USA
Photo: nobelprize.org
|
| Average price of a dozen eggs in 1976 (USA) |
|
$0.84 |
|
|
|
|
Oscar of the best picture in 1976 |
Rocky
directed by John G. Avildsen
with Sylvester Stallone (Rocky Balboa), Burgess Meredith (Mickey) and Talia Shire (Adrian)
|
Designed in 1976 |
The Chair 'model 2004/2005'
by Alexander Begge |
|